Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - October 3

Published on Monday, October 6, 2025

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Open-source

GitHub - james-gould/azure-keyvault-emulator: An emulator for Azure Key Vault. Compatible with the Azure Client SDK, runnable with Docker or .NET Aspire. by James Gould

Software Architecture

Bringing Simplicity-First to the Page: My Upcoming Book by Chris Woody Woodruff

.NET

Jaliya's Blog: EF Core 10.0: Support for Complex Types without using Owned Entities by Jaliya Udagedara

Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer by .NET Team

Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (October) by Rhea Patel

Publishing NuGet packages from GitHub actions the easy way with Trusted Publishing by Andrew Lock

Celebrating Marten's 10th Birthday! by Jeremy D. Miller

Using Stored Procedures and Functions With EF Core and PostgreSQL by Milan Jovanović

Software Design

How to Break a Big Ball of Mud? by Alexander von Zitzewitz

Agile/Work Life

Walking the Walk by Rob Conery

The Imposter's Breakthrough by Rob Conery

REST/APIs

OpenAPI 3.2... Finally! by Alexander Karan

Azure

Azure SDK Release (September 2025) by Azure SDK Blog

Software Development

It's striking so quickly the industry forgets that lines of code isn't a measure of productivity by Mark Seemann

The $150 Secret Hiding in Plain Sight by Jim Harrer

AI

Stanford Study: ‘AI’ Generated ‘Workslop’ Actually Making Productivity Worse by Techdirt

Inside the AI Slopocalypse: Why We're Not Backing Down by Inception Point AI

Correctness Isn't Competence by Mike Amundsen

Computing

Can we get weak functions for static linking? The Visual C++ compiler says "We have weak functions at home" by Raymond Chen

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